Ferskvandsfaunaen, biologisk belyst:

Abstract

IN 1915 Prof. Wesenberg-Lund published a volume entitled "Insektlivet i ferske Vande" in which he gave a semi-popular account of the life-histories and habits of freshwater insects, based largely on the researches of himself and his pupils. As he explained in the preface, one of his objects was to make available to his countrymen, in their own language, the results of researches that had, for the most part, been published in foreign scientific periodicals and in foreign languages. With the same object in view, he has now produced in these two handsome volumes a survey of the remaining groups of invertebrates inhabiting fresh water, omitting the Protozoa, which stand apart and would require a volume to themselves. The theme of the work is the 'biology' (in the German sense) of the animals, their habits and mode of life. Systematics, anatomy and development are considered only in so far as they bear on this subject. At the same time, the abundant and excellent illustrations should enable the student to identify, at least approximately, most of the common species found in Denmark. Since 1930, the author has been director of the freshwater biological station established by the Carlsberg Foundation at Hillerod, and while the researches carried on there have supplied much of the material for the book (including some hitherto unpublished matter) the survey has been extended to include brief accounts of the freshwater fauna of other parts of the world.

Ferskvandsfaunaen, biologisk belyst:

Invertebrata. Af Prof. Dr. C. Wesenberg-Lund. Bind 1. Pp. vi + 414 + 12 plates. Bind 2. Pp. iv + 415–837 + plates 13–24. (København: Gyl-dendalske Boghandel, 1937.)